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With interest waning in the midst of Thanksgiving Break, four more teams have punched their tickets to the Elite Eight. Whitewater and Whitman delivered resounding beatings to their respective overmatched opponents, while the Bantams eeked out a victory in a low-scoring battle against the Poets. In the surprise of the week, the Slugs took the…

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The first set of second round matches have been completed, and another purple nuisance has emerged. I’m flattered to have a big following from Kenyon on the blog, but they have ousted the Scotty dogs, and nobody likes someone who kills a dog. Other than that, the round 2 matches went pretty much as I…

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Well, the first round is officially in the books, and the Wash U Bears became the third #1 seed to go out in the first round. I guess their Christmas color scheme didn’t do them any favors. I wonder if they would have won if the game had been played in December… That’s dumb. The…

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Well, it finally happened. A team with a clearly inferior mascot galvanized their fan base to get their mascot through to the second round. With 160 votes, the UW-W Warhawks are going to be very formidable going into the coming rounds, and it stands to reason they will be able to get more votes later…

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Preseason rankings are out. They almost always look exactly like the end-of-season rankings from the previous year, but look for Amherst. No, scroll down. Keep scrolling. Keep scrolling. There they are, right where they belong at #19. That’s what you get when you don’t roll out a full lineup for matches against two real good…